Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.
It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.
Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.
Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.